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NRL Player

If the coach only does one thing, it's fire up the team. So when he's saying the team has the wrong "attitude" he's literally saying he wasn't able to fire them up. In other words, he's saying they're not listening to him.

NYC Player

If the coach only does one thing, it's fire up the team. So when he's saying the team has the wrong "attitude" he's literally saying he wasn't able to fire them up. In other words, he's saying they're not listening to him.

He's saying they weren't up for the game. They were up for the game last week, and the week before, and so on. You don't say a coach has lost the dressing room because they couldn't get their team fired up for one game. It's just silliness.

Now if you want to complain about how dreadful our attack is, even when the boys are fired up, or about who currently occupies the 1, 6, 7 and 9 in our team, then you're being reasonable.

NRL Player

He's saying they weren't up for the game. They were up for the game last week, and the week before, and so on. You don't say a coach has lost the dressing room because they couldn't get their team fired up for one game. It's just silliness.

Now if you want to complain about how dreadful our attack is, even when the boys are fired up, or about who currently occupies the 1, 6, 7 and 9 in our team, then you're being reasonable.

NRL Player

I think it’s our fault for expecting too much too soon. Was always going to take this season and perhaps next. They’re only kids mostly with a dozen or so games under their belt. We're the Broncs we'll get there.

NRL Player

I beg to differ, clearly your expectations were set too high and because our team didn’t reach them you are looking for someone else to blame. Myself, I never thought for a moment we would reach the finals this year. That said, I am hurting along with everyone else but we are certainly not a finals oriented team yet, that comes with experience and that takes time.

NRL Player

I beg to differ, clearly your expectations were set too high and because our team didn’t reach them you are looking for someone else to blame. Myself, I never thought for a moment we would reach the finals this year. That said, I am hurting along with everyone else but we are certainly not a finals oriented team yet, that comes with experience and that takes time.

NYC Player

This must be the fifth time I’ve read that Seibold has given the team a spray about their attitudes, but it’s just words. Do they need to pick up their game? Absolutely. Have half of them had the crappiest seasons I’ve seen them play in awhile? For sure. Boyd, Macca, Issako, Shibasaki, and Oates have been extremely ordinary this season, to name a few.

But maybe that’s not the only problem. Maybe they need a coach who will actually bench the idiots who are underperforming like Boyd and Macca. Maybe we need a coach who doesn’t insist on playing a hooker at half, and maybe we need an actual game plan that includes the players passing the goddamn ball, halves who have an actual kicking game, and players who know how (and when) to tackle.

We’re going to get crushed next week if we field the same team we used this week. But at least the pain of watching this team sleepwalk through every other bloody game will be over.

He needs to be at 5/8 which is his best position. His move to FB was because Boyd was screwing up. Dumb. In fact, because of the obsession with keeping Boyd and Macca, the entire team structure is fucked

State of Origin Captain

He needs to be at 5/8 which is his best position. His move to FB was because Boyd was screwing up. Dumb. In fact, because of the obsession with keeping Boyd and Macca, the entire team structure is fucked

NRL Player

He needs to be at 5/8 which is his best position. His move to FB was because Boyd was screwing up. Dumb. In fact, because of the obsession with keeping Boyd and Macca, the entire team structure is fucked

My memory is that Milford was a great 5/8 in a team that didn't particularly gel. He was probably our best over the last 3 years. As for Boyd, I also can't remember him having a step or change of pace in the way that Milford or other halves have. Apart from which, like Turpin, for mine he just doesn't have the talent or skills to be a half. FB, wing centre - yes.

As for Dearden and SOS, I remember both of them taking on the line repeatedly. Turpin, rarely. Funnily enough, when he does, and he did take on the line against the Dogs, he bent it and nearly got through. He is so inconsistent. He is potentially a top shelf hooker being wasted.

NRL Player

I think attitude is as much a playing group thing as it is the coach... maybe more so.

The coach can demand whatever they want, but if you start letting your team mates down or you don't meet the standards that the playing group set out you sure as hell know you won't be in the team for very long.

You'll lose the trust of your team mates and then you'll be gone.

At the moment the leadership group either aren't being hard enough on poor performances, aren't leading by example or they aren't demanding enough respect from the rest of the playing group.